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AV Idol

AV Idols is the term used in Japan for describing adult video stars. When a porn actress becomes popular and recognizable she becomes referred as Idol, more popularity gives some idols cult status. Not every adult video actress is a star (idol), only those most popular, there are many other who are simply amateurs or not-yet idols but on their way to be ;) In spite of their very often innocent looks they performs in hardcore porn movies, including gangbanging theme, bukkake, SM and some other fetish. AV Idol term is distinctively used for Japanese only actresses. In western culture it's simply Pornstar.

AV Idol in Mainstream

AV Idols often performs modelling (ex.: for bikini) they can also appear in the mainstream movies or in Sci-Fi and horror movies (very popular amongst AV Idols). Sometimes a non-porn related celebrity from television can wish to appear in adult movie. AV actress is considering a very good and profitable career in Japan and is not considered shameful on the contrary to western culture.

AV Idol Job

AV actresses are scouted by talent agencies or apply for this job (ex.: Maria Ozawa). Movies with "New Face" actress are usually called AV Debut and a salary of new girls are sometimes over $15.000 per movie, well known AV stars can earn more than $35.000.

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11 Movies per Day

Adult Video market in Japan is very big and it is said they produce over 11 movies everyday. Career span of one actress is usually 1 year and up to 10 videos. More popular models can have over 100 movies and are working for even 10 years. Adult Video industry in Japan is dated on early 1980s.

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Vinyl/Bini Bon

Softcore, censored photobook. It may or may not have text. The "beaver-books" were sold from vending machines with one-way mirrors on the face. During daylight, the books were not visible. At night they were illuminated from inside and thus viewable to potential customers. Early books priced from about 900 yen.Infos thanks to Jans-Web

Gravure Idol

Adult model which performs usually softcore erotic for men magazines, photobooks, centerfolds and softcore vids. They commonly appears in bikinis, lingerie, schoolgirl uniforms, kimonos. Gravure models can be pre-teen girls (non-nude session). In western culture we would probably use term "pin-up" to describe Gravure.

Mosaic and Urabon

Almost unchanged since 1907 law about distribute obscene materials in Japan resulted in censorship. Adult Videos have mosaic which covers pussies and dicks of performers. Sometimes this mosaic is advertised as "Tiny" and is balancing on the edge of law. But people have it's demands and here comes underground (urabon) market. You can buy uncensored movies in Japan but not legally, you have to dig a bit their Urabon market (underground/black market). Some Japanese movie producers are shooting uncensored movies but it is illegal to sell it even outside of Japan so they are selling raw footage to outside companies and since they are producers not distributors it happens to be legal by the Japan law. Below is more detailed definition of Urabon by my friend ALOTI (explained in example of Urabon photobooks): "Today's version of Urabon began issue in the present format in 1981, with 48 to 56 pages. Many of the earlier books were pirated from the "beaver-books" and re-issued. In reviewing many of the Japanese language reference sites, the term urabon in Japanese consist of two characters "ura-hon". This literary means "wrong side book" or "back-book". This phrase directly relates to the English phrase Urabon. The word "Back" translates to "ushiro, ura, youritsu, bakku, haigo, rimen". It has also been loosely translated as "plastic-wrapped", "back-room", "under-the-counter" and may other phrases. But the most concise is the one above. Urabon books are illegal in Japan, however, there is an Underground market producing so-called "uncorrected" or "underground" books."

Rin Aoki born February 28, 1985 is a Japanese gravure model, adult video actress and erotic dancer. She began as a Gravure idol and later moved to hardcore video work where she became an award-winning AV Idol.

Gravure Idol Aoki was born in Yamagata Prefecture on February 28, 1985. She was first scouted in Harajuku as a gravure model in 2002 at the age of 17. Her first gravure video, Burst, appeared in 2003 and she soon became a popular Gravure idol. After two years as a glamour model, Aoki decided to enter the adult video scene and signed with the major Japanese AV company S1 No. 1 Style, one of the Hokuto Corporation group of companies. It is reported that her contract guaranteed her an estimated 13,000,000 yen (about $166,000) per movie, a sum greatly above the average even for top AV idols.

AV actress Her first AV production with S1, K-cup Active Idol Risky Mosaic, appeared in May 2006 and was directed by Hideto Aki who also directed most of her subsequent videos with S1. She says she was comfortable with her first AV work but was embarrassed about showing her nipples because they were small and pale colored. After making ten original videos with S1 in almost a year, she left the studio along with Maria Ozawa and other fellow S1 actresses to join the startup company DAS. In contrast to S1 which specializes in the “softer” type of pornography with mostly straightforward boy-girl sex scenes, DAS videos ventured into more extreme areas such as simulated rape, creampie and watersports. Aoki starred in the first video of the DAS series DASD-001, 20 Shots Creampie!, released on April 25, 2007. She has made several more movies for DAS including her first inter-racial role in the DAS “Black Gang Rape” series.

By August 2008, Aoki was with a new start-up studio, OPPAI, which publicized her first video for them, 108 cm Kcup Rin, with a signing and modeling event. Although continuing to make movies for OPPAI, she has also appeared in videos for Attackers and yet another new studio, Ranmaru.

Popularity and recognition Aoki is one of the latest examples of the very popular genre of “Big-Bust” models in the Japanese AV industry going back to Kimiko Matsuzaka. As a measure of her popularity in Japan, the listing of the top 100 actresses by sales from the DMM website shows Aoki ranked #3 in 2006 and #9 in 2007.

Aoki had a small preview appearance in the S1 compilation video Hyper – Barely There Mosaic with AV idols Sora Aoi, Yua Aida, Yuma Asami, Maria Ozawa and Honoka which won the 2006 AV Open competition among Japanese porn studios.

At the 7th annual Takeshi Kitano Entertainment Awards for 2006 sponsored by the Japanese tabloid newspaper Tokyo Sports, Aoki was honored with the Star AV Actress Award(informations thanks to wikipedia.org)

Nana Ogura debuted in adult in 2010, except her av idol job she is trained diver and she likes shopping. She’s also done lingerie and bikini photo shoots for calendars and magazines and have couple of gravure photobooks before starting her adult career. Nana is a squirter and she i known for real, non fake enjoying during sex scenes. In spite of her debut is counted from 2010 she released two movies in 2009 with full nudity scenes and with finger and dildo penetration under name of Shiho Iwato.

Risa Kasumi is well known av idol born in 1984, debuted in 2007, she have extra cute face and high quality natural tits. She’s tall model for average Japanese idols with her 170cm, internet says she likes shopping and playing on electronic organs. Recently (2014) she experimented with her look, mostly with makeup, probably a little plastic surgery but can’t say for sure, also been training and dropped some weight (lost some tits size in progress as well), needless to say she looks better now than before :D

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Exclusive sites are those who shoot their own movies and photos and it's not being repeated on others sites. In Japan there's a couple of exclusive sites but it's censored and sometimes updated like once per month, what may be OK for an average Japanese fan, but it's not good for a Westerners, who are used to something more, so exclusive Japanese sites made for Western dude have lot's more updates and are uncensored (!) I'm gonna show you few best one's on sidebars of AVIdol.org.